Tobias Wicky and Maki Wiederkehr sing and play Schubert.

Tobias Wicky, baritone
Singing has been Tobias Wicky's greatest passion from an early age. The Swiss baritone received his first musical training as a child as a singer in the Basel Boys' Choir. Thanks to his intensive musical training and diverse experiences in concerts, opera performances and on tour, the boys' choir shaped him and paved the way for his current career.

Today, the versatile singer delights large audiences at home and abroad as a soloist in oratorios, as a song interpreter and as a member of renowned vocal ensembles. The cantatas and passion works of Johann Sebastian Bach enjoy a special place in Tobias Wicky's artistic work.

In recent years, Tobias Wicky has continuously expanded his repertoire. He has sung Handel's Messiah, Haydn's Seasons, Mendelssohn's Walpurgisnacht as well as great romantic and modern works: Hindemith's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, Duruflé's Requiem, Honegger's La Danse des Morts and Gabriel Fauré's Requiem, which he recently performed with the Basel Chamber Orchestra at the Stadtcasino. As a sought-after concert singer, Tobias Wicky works with orchestras throughout Europe, including the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, L'arpa festante Munich, Freiburger Barockorchester, Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz, Le Parlement de Musique, Concerto Romano and the Capricornus Consort Basel.

As a sought-after ensemble singer, Tobias Wicky performs with the best-known ensembles, above all the Bachstiftung St. Gallen under Rudolf Lutz, the Vox Luminis under Lionel Meunier, the Collegium Vocale Gent under Philippe Herreweghe and the ensemble he founded, Voces Suaves. The ensemble regularly performs at major festivals such as the Baroque Days of the Berlin State Opera and the Innsbruck Early Music Festival and can call itself a renowned early music ensemble throughout Europe. Experts particularly appreciate the ensemble's extraordinary sound culture. Various recordings by Voces Suaves have been released by renowned labels and have been awarded various international prizes.

Tobias Wicky studied with Marcel Boone at the Basel University of Music. At the same time, he deepened his knowledge of historical performance practice at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Rosa Domínguez. He is a passionate cook and wine lover and can often be found in his garden. He lives with his family in the Basel region.

Maki Wiederkehr, piano
Born in Solothurn in 1986, Maki Wiederkehr received her first piano lessons at the age of 3. One year later she also began to play the violin. In 2003, she was accepted into the soloist class of Prof. Homero Francesch at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). After completing her Matura with a focus on Latin at the Kantonsschule Solothurn, she began to study violin in 2004 alongside her piano studies, but decided a year later to concentrate on her piano studies with Prof. Francesch.

In 2009, she completed both her teaching and concert diploma with distinction. In 2011 she obtained her soloist diploma with Ravel's concerto for left hand and orchestra and completed her studies in 2012 with the CAS.

Maki Wiederkehr has won numerous first prizes as a soloist in Switzerland and abroad. Among others, she won the Rahn Music Prize competition in Zurich, which enabled her to make her debut in the large Tonhalle hall and was followed by further concert invitations. She has received study prizes from the Kiefer Hablitzel Foundation, the Friedl Wald Foundation, Migros in cooperation with the Ernst Göhner Foundation and the Kiwanis Chamber Music Prize. She has also been awarded work-year prizes from the Canton of Solothurn and the Curt and Marianne Dienemann Foundation in Lucerne.

In addition to her solo activities, she is an enthusiastic chamber musician. Her trio Rafale won first prize at the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in 2014, as well as at the prestigious Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition in 2011. The trio was mentored by Prof. Eckart Heiligers at the ZHdK and also received valuable musical impulses from Prof. Rainer Schmidt as part of their postgraduate studies in Basel. In 2013, it won the Migros Culture Percentage Chamber Music Competition and also received the Audience Award; one year later, it was awarded the City of Zurich's Werkjahr. The trio has accepted numerous concert invitations and has toured Japan extensively, including a subsequent concert in Korea and Hawai'i. In 2017, they were awarded the German Record Critics' Award for their CD "Youthful Passion" (list of the best).

Maki has performed numerous concerts at venues including the Philharmonie Berlin, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Prague Spring Festival, Wigmore Hall London, Lucerne Festival, Equinox Festival Copenhagen, Galway Festival Dublin, December Nights of Sviatoslav Richter Moscow and Menuhin Festival Gstaad.

Franz Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin (op. 25, D 795)

Tobias Wicky, baritone
Maki Wiederkehr, piano


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